ICE Joins Manhunt in Mineral Springs Area

Federal agents from the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) joined the Kittitas County Sheriff's Office Thursday in the search for 24-year-old Jorge Omar Alcantara-Gonzalez.

The agency says Alcantara-Gonzalez is a Mexican citizen who is in the United States illegally. Between 2018 and 2019, he was arrested and booked into the King County Jail on multiple occasions and released back into the community despite multiple immigration detainers.

Gonzalez is wanted in connection to the disappearance of 41-year-old Ian Eckles of Kent.